DOES DONALD TRUMP HAVE A PRESIDENTIAL “ACHILLES HEEL”?

…A classic Trump “Thank You” Rally

 

President-Elect Trump has a very strange way of unifying a very divided nation.

 

You may recall that the night that Donald Trump won the presidency, he made a speech where he said, “Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division; have to get together.”   He read these prepared remarks from a teleprompter.

 

But if you have been following his comments since that night, he has pretty much shown the opposite attitude of punishing everyone that did not support him as the presidential nominee.

 

Even though he met with president Obama and the president recommended that Trump needed to unify the country and to focus on those groups that were in opposition to his victory.  But once again, all Trump has done is use Twitter to show that he has no intention of taking that approach.

 

So, what did Trump chose to do?

 

First, instead of unifying America, he decided to call the protestors “professional paid protestors who were incited by the media,” and he called the protests against him “unfair”.

 

He then went and named Stephen Bannon, the controversial “Alt-Right” head of Breitbart News, as a senior staff adviser for his White House team. In doing this, he was defining his idea of “unity” as only for those American’s that had embraced Donald Trump.  He was doing anything but reaching out to “all those 'other' Americans”.

 

Even his Tweet for his Happy New Year statement pretty much said it all: “Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!”

 

This tweet was very similar to the best wishes he had said in his New Year’s quote from 2013 which was also for everyone, “even the haters and losers.”

 

As the new US President, these words carry a whole new level of weight.

 

For Trump’s Thanksgiving wishes, he was very strong in asking the nation to come together and that when we are united, , “…there is nothing beyond our reach, and I mean absolutely nothing.”

 

But then, less than two weeks later, Trump made his first “thank you tour” stop in Ohio. On these trips, he only visited those states that had put him over the top in the Electoral College, and the topics during those stops were: “the dishonest press; his frustration with Republican Gov. John Kasich, who didn't support him, and how protesters against him at the events 'apparently don’t know that Hillary lost a couple of weeks ago'.”

 

It was just another example of twisting the knife into the backs of those that did not support him.  In other words, a very strange way of “unifying a very divided nation”.

 

During some of his thank-you stops, he insisted that “we are going to bring our country together — all of our country. We’re going to find common ground, and we will get the job done properly.” But this was being said as the crowd was still chanting “lock her up”.  And Trump just couldn’t stop himself as he then said: “We did have a lot of fun fighting Hillary didn't we?”

 

All this has proved just how frustrated and large, but shallow, Trump’s ego is by him just barely winning the Electoral College and by losing the popular vote by a record 2.8 million votes.  This is also shown by his inventing his statement of losing due to, “millions of illegal votes” and his continual denial that Russia had anything to do with hacking into the DNC.

 

He has even tried to move the media along by saying: “Russia's efforts are old news everyone should move on past it all.”

 

Donald Trump is not the first president to inherit a severely divided nation.  But for someone like Trump with such an inflated and shallow ego, he has very little of the tolerance that is needed to be a successful president.  When he uses a teleprompter, he is usually given the right words to say that could help unite the nation.  But once he grabs his phone and starts tweeting, his real negative thoughts always leak out.

 

Tweeting could become the “Achilles Heel” for President Donald J. Trump.

 

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